anvilandink.bsky.social
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Epic D&D adventures for small groups (2-3 players) and busy schedules. One-shots you can run in 2-4 hours. 🎲⚔️ 📚 https://anvilnink.com/
Trivia night. Everyone pictures old maps crawling with "here be dragons" at the world's edge. Guess: how many REAL historical maps carry that exact phrase? Sea monsters do not count. Drop your number - answer in the comments tonight. anvilnink.com #ttrpg #cartography
PLOT HOOK MONDAY A peddler sells cheap trinkets in your market. He comes to town and sells what he has. Then one day....
The dungeon they call the Gullet cleans itself - gentle jelly cubes dissolve whatever the delvers leave behind. Now the cubes turn up dead and the town is going broke. Squeaky Clean: a zero-prep 5e comedy murder mystery. payhip.com/b/40Wix #ttrpg #dndcomedy #SelfPromoSaturday
Every table has the dice rituals. The one who blows on them. The one with a 'death saves only' die. The one who benched a d20 for rolling badly, like it can feel shame. We are adults whispering to tiny rocks. What's your table's ritual? anvilnink.com youtube.com/shorts/Q9PbV... #ttrpg #dndmemes
Small-table secret that saves whole sessions: not every monster wants to fight. Before the wandering creature swings, roll 2d6 for its mood - low hostile, mid wary, high curious and open to a deal. Now the ogre on the bridge might rather be paid than punched. anvilnink.com #ttrpg #dmtips
Trivia night. Medieval siege engines flung far more than stones over castle walls. Besides rocks, what did commanders actually load into a trebuchet? Three real answers, every one grim. Guess below - the answer drops in the comments later. anvilnink.com #ttrpg #dndlore #history
PLOT HOOK MONDAY. Steal it. A writ on the tavern board pays a year's wages for one night: sit the locked room, keep a candle lit till dawn. The turn: the back is signed by 41 who took the job before you. None were ever paid. Last night the chair sat empty. anvilnink.com #ttrpg #dndplothooks
The dragon has been waiting to take its turn for twenty minutes. Two players are still arguing whether the pillar gives half cover or three-quarters. It has folded its wings, made tea, and grown feelings. What rule eats the most time at your table? anvilnink.com #ttrpg #dndmemes
Small-table GM tip. The one-shot that never ends is not too long - it is un-budgeted. Split your session into thirds, and at the two-thirds mark ring the bell: whatever they are doing, the next scene points at the ending. Cut a side path, never the finale. anvilnink.com #ttrpg #gmtips
A monk took up a cursed blade to avenge his sister. It cut out the evil - and his humanity with it. Now he is the oni who judges the mountain. Climb the holy dark and face him. A zero-prep 5e samurai one-shot for 2-3 players. anvilnink.com/the-onis-road-samurai-one-shot #ttrpg #dndoneshot
Trivia night. In fifth edition your party splits a few hundred gold off one dead lich and barely blinks. In the real medieval world, how long did a common laborer work to earn ONE gold coin? A week? A month? Guess below. Awnswer in the video! anvilnink.com #ttrpg #dndlore #gold
PLOT HOOK MONDAY. Steal it. A door at the back of the tavern was bricked up years ago. Three knocks still land on it every night - from the other side. No one will say who. The turn: the knocks are not asking in. They are counting. anvilnink.com Would you use this plot? #ttrpg #dndplothooks
Your party finds a legendary sword glowing with power in the last vault. Nobody touches it - it MIGHT be cursed. So you poke it with a ten-foot pole and finish the dungeon with a rusty dagger. What did your table refuse to pick up? anvilnink.com #ttrpg #dndmemes
We sort of tried something crazy. We bundled 101 of our books together in one purchase. Adventures, guides, litRPG, and more... one price, $200 for the first 101 Books. PDF, EPUB, maps, images included. payhip.com/b/hfCzJ Do you think its a good value? #ttrpg #DnD #adventure
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The job was clean: board the midnight train, steal the stone, jump before the ravine. But the stone is a cracking prison and the conductor stopped being a man two nights ago. A Weird West 5e one-shot you got to play tonight! anvilnink.com/the-last-tra... #ttrpg #dndoneshot #weirdwest
--> Small-table GM tip. That stranger your players walked up to and you never planned for? Build someone unforgettable in ten seconds: one WANT, one QUIRK, one VOICE. That is the whole trick. The NPC you improvised outlives the one you prepped. anvilnink.com #ttrpg #gmtips #WIPWednesday
Half owl, half bear, and one of the most iconic monsters in the game. Here is the strange part: the owlbear was not invented by a designer sketching a beast. Its real origin is something you could have bought for pocket change in 1974. Any idea what? anvilnink.com #ttrpg #dnd #owlbear
PLOT HOOK MONDAY. Steal it. You wake on a cold floor in a room you've never seen. Hands red to the wrist - not your blood. Nobody remembers the last few hours. One clue says you did it. One says you stopped something worse. What happened in the missing hours? anvilnink.com #ttrpg #dndplothooks
GM confession: the dragon rolled a 19 on your paladin - a clean kill. I looked at the die, and I said eight. She lived. She never knew. Some nights the story matters more than the number. GMs - ever fudged a roll to save the party? #dmconfessions #dnd anvilnink.com
You go down alone. Your warband is dead - things in the dark took their minds first; they wait wearing your friends' faces. A solo horror RPG: one player, one d20, no GM. At zero Sanity you don't die - you join them. anvilnink.com/mind-flayer-... #SelfPromoSaturday #dnd
Why do small #DND groups struggle in combat? Well, today I got into that on a YouTube video. #gamemastertips #TTRPG youtu.be/AYZPaOeikLM What do you think of the tips? Are they helpful?
Why Small D&D Groups Struggle in Combat (and the Easy Fix) | Small-Table GM Tips #dndtip #dmtips
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What kind of Dungeon Master are you? Locked door, no rogue: do you check the rulebook, or does the chandelier just become canon? Our free test names your #DM type, your player type, and who you'd click with at the table. Let us know your type below. anvilnink.com/what-kind-of... #ttrpg #dnd
Small-table GM tip: two heroes lose the action economy against one monster. Do not add more monsters. Add the room. Give one hazard its own initiative slot - a rising tide, a swinging censer, falling rubble. Every round becomes a choice, not just math. anvilnink.com #ttrpg #gmtips #WIPWednesday
Hey all, I made a video about how to do duet play. #Duet is one dungeon master and one player. With three tips to use that if you decide to play a game like this, you should think about. I recommend you try Dungeon Master and one player for a memorable session. #TTRP #DM youtu.be/EMIlnPO08Po
The Secret to Running Great D&D for Only One Player #DnD #DMTips
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Table trivia. Pour out one standard seven-dice set - d4, d6, d8, both d10s, d12, d20. Add up every face across all seven. How many sides are you holding in one hand? Best guess below, answer tonight. anvilnink.com #ttrpg #dnddice
PLOT HOOK for your Monday. Steal it. A child in the village keeps drawing rooms of a dungeon that does not exist yet. Every morning, the room she drew the night before is real, carved into the hills exactly as inked. She is three pages from the last one. anvilnink.com #ttrpg #dndplothooks
GM CONFESSIONS. My players spent forty-five minutes planning a heist. Disguises, forged papers, a fake wagon of turnips. Beautiful work. I had written a tavern brawl, so I turned the vault into a tavern. They still wonder why the bank had bar stools. Not sorry. anvilnink.com #ttrpg #dndmemes
The reef breaks her ship in twenty minutes, and your players must be aboard when it does. The Crimson Wake: a razor-coral pirate chase where the stolen relic turns out to be an egg. 5e, 2-3 players, zero prep. anvilnink.com/the-crimson-... Paperback: amzn.to/4w69qvT #ttrpg #SelfPromoSaturday
